Throughout my prior career—working first as a freelancer in Southeast Asia, then as a junior reporter in Alaska, later as a Shanghai-based correspondent for the Washington Post, and eventually as a national economic writer for the New York Times—I have centered my reporting on people who have suffered the consequences of Davos Man’s depredation. I have written about families who have lost their homes to foreclosure in Florida and California, workers whose wages have eroded from Ohio to England, landless laborers enduring feudal poverty in the Philippines and India. I am used to operating in
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